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I dont know much about your second question. I would say it would be more of a preference thing. Cause your really only going for the cola as it is. So with that being said, i dont think tucking really mattera but loke i said, i dont have much experience...
But as for your first question, i agree. Most tents are surprisingly cheap... Thats why these days i build my own... I dont use mylar tho. I find it a little more expensive and kind of a pain to reuse... What i do is build a frame out of 1 1/2in pvc pipe. Then i use panda film to build the walls of the tent and Velcro strips to seal the door. It works well when you only have one room and need a place for clones and mothers.
Well there is somewhat of a debate about mylar vs panda film... Some say panda film is more reflectived on its white side but others will tell you its mylar... My stance? Panda film and ill tell you why. I was a die-hard mylar fan until i used panda film. Mylar can wrinkle causing un even light spots/heat spots. It also can get spotty if using foliar feedings or splatters from feedings. If it tears it splits very easy.Yea, since I hadn't gotten an answer on here, until I just saw yours, I experimented with a few different techniques. I have tied some shoots down to run it along the screen while tucking the bigger shade leaves under the screen. I have straight up just weaved the shoots over and under the screen. And I have just waited till the shoot was about four or five inches above the screen and then I pull it back under the screen and straighten it out along one of the lines of the screen; keeping the new growth right there at the top.
The last method, though, I just do not see how it is going to work. If I am just putting the shoots under the screen and spreading it all out, the point of the screen is to also hold the weight of the colas, correct? If thats the case, that third method might as well not even have the screen involved at all because it isn't supporting any weight. But then again, I may be wrong the different uses of the screen. Either way, everything seems to be working so far and things are growing. I am hoping to flip a week from today. Lol gotta love being the FNG and experimenting left and right lol.
I did not even think about making an actual tent out of raw materials. I have been designing something to set up in a closet, but the closet was the room itself. But I like the idea of coming up with my own tent. With the Panda film, how much reflection do you get out of it (mylar supposedly reflects back 93%-97%), and what other pros do you see using Panda?
How about environmental factors? How are you regulating temps, humidity, and other stuff inside the tent on of those?
Panda film is pure white and rarely shows splatter marks. Reflects light more evenly and i cant prove it but i think the black back helps draw heat out of the grow area. Its also cheaper and can be reused after being folded, rolled up and stored. I might also ad that it has more elasticity than mylar wich is good when pulling it tight around a pvc frame.
Here’s what my last run looked like. Four White Widow plants in 3gal pots, in a 3x3 tent, and the SCRoG has 4” squares. The first two pics are day 1 of flower. The last pic is just before harvest.
I don’t recommend doing 2” squares (I did that the run before). It makes it a pain to manipulate the growth when they get bigger.... I should also note that I use a silicate supplement. So that will effect branch strength as well.
As for when to flip I like to fill my screen up to the point where if I tuck the outside of the plant one more time during stretch it will give me an even canopy. So you tuck it once during stretch, make sure you clean her underskirt before flip and 2 weeks after flip. Then after you clean the bottom up throw a trellis on above your screen to support the buds so they dont flop, and bazinga big buds haha
View attachment 825570 My setup has 10 ft ceiling so I never have to worry about vert space but my canopy usually sits around 5ft up from the ground. I have a strain that stretches a lot too so it gets taller than most. If it gets too tall throw a trellis above your net and bend them down slightly into another square to manage your canopy
The trellis sits somewhere around 1.5 to 2 feet above the original scrog. I basically just throw it on to stop the buds from flopping over so wherever your stretch ends just drop it right there
Alright, so before I run into town I decided to take these couple of photos really quick to see what you think about my set up. I come from a combat arms line unit, so let fly whatever you think about my situation and what I have going on. Any questions, suggestions, complaints, concerns, bitches, and even gripes - throw them at me. If I need to get in there and get more detailed pictures later tonight, sure thing. lol
... Tuck them into the middle and fill that gap as soon as you can and pretty much when that gap fills you'll be good to flip.
Growing in coco.
Looks like you should get a pretty solid yield in there as long as it can breathe good. It gets pretty crowded in a scrog
... as long as it can breathe good. It gets pretty crowded in a scrog
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